The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-06-11
Le1ter from sugartown.

SUGARTowE, MAY 81, 1887.
Editor Lake Charles Echo
Everybody in this upper country is In fine
spirits over the prospect of fine crops. Never
for the last five years has the outlook been
so encouraging at this time of the year 1t
has been somewhat dry, but this has been
favorable for cleaning the crop and prepar-
ing the ground to receive the timely showers
which we have been having. If no bad
storms or other disaster befalls it the corn
crop bids fair to be the best that has been
made for years. Owing to the dry spell at
the proper time for planting, most farmers
waited for rain before planting cotton which
makes it late, but IT is in fine condition and
looks well.
1t is very evident the reason Zone of EN-"
Is unwilling to write over his own signature,
is the fact that the next election is near at
hand, and we know If it becomes generally
known among the voters of the parish who it
is that wants TO make use Of their money for
embelishing that town, he will get badly left
at the polls. But since our Parish Clerk went
before the last Grand Jury with long pre-
amble condemning the 4pld Court House,
requesting the Jury to adopt it in their re-
port, which they refused TO do. And, also,
he went before the Police Jury requesting
them 10 order a new Court House built, and
was told by some of them that if he would
agree never to- ask for Office again In this
parish they would give him a new Court
House, and as he failed TO accept the propo-
sitiOn, we presume the new Court House
question has received it's qnietus, for a while
at least.
And NOW let as talk little about our pub
| lie roads. This Is not an individual question.
| 1t Is one In which Lake Charles Is more
| deeply interested than evenFthe people Of
this section. in this part of the parish sew
1 eral thousand bales of cotton are made every
1 nf tn find ita IL,
| Lake Charles for market, and would go
there If we had good roads to that place
i But instead of this 1t takes an opposite direc,
ton, and very little Of it ever goes there
4 Then, II the proper inducements were held
| out to draw the business of this section tC
that place, where 1t naturally ought to 60, /
| large portion of the proceeds OF the cottoT
crop would be left there among the different
merchants for groceries and other necessa
ries. Then there Is the wool product, in
efeasing very fast every year, that would Il
to Lake Charles, Its natural outlet, IL W,
had good roads.
This section is progressing very fast and i
4 destined, In the near future, to be one Of tn
finest farming sections in the parish, and /
will be very much to the detriment Of LAX
Charles If she ignores this fact, and is indif
ferent TO employing means to divert its bus
mess from its present channel into that Il
Which il ought TO go. Give the people on
BO0uI uifeely publlc 5fDabe from bugart0Fgn y
Lake Charles, put It In good condition. an
then keep 1t so BY ab0lishing all other road
and concentrating all the money and labo
now required to Keep them up upon the on
II road, and we viii soon have route that vii
draw the business OF this section into II
proper channel, and would ultimately bench
Lake charles more than a dozen new Goul
Houses
The Echo has ever been true to tile publ
welfare, and has readily yielded its own pr
delieti6ns to what ii saw was for the generi
Il good. II has been faithful 10 It's conviction
Of right and wrong, nntirlng IN its zeal /
present to the world the true character /
the undevalOped resources Of our parish
nitleant nose to a man because be was poo
and this gives 1t influence among the people
and we hope, through Its influence, In PAL
+ at least 10 have good roads
JUNE1SAI4